The boy reveals that Toussaint is his Haitian name and his Wakandan name is T'Challa, son of T'Challa. The scene works as both a tribute to Chadwick Boseman and a means to allow for a T'Challa to continue to exist in the MCU. It also hits on the core importance of Boseman's character beyond the mantle of Black Panther.
Haiti is his home and will forever be a part of his identity. This marriage of the fictional African empire and the real-world nation where Black independence was won creates a powerful symbolic avatar in the form of this young boy.
Divine Love Konadu-Sun, who portrayed Toussaint, the son of Chadwick Boseman's King T'Challa in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, recently spoke out about the role for the first time.
The film's incorporation of Haitian culture did not go unnoticed, from the Wakandan princess Shuri riding a tap-tap, a form of public transportation, to the characters' proper pronunciation of Haiti, “Ayiti.” Claude Joseph, former Haiti prime minister, stated on Twitter, “Very emotional to watch Wakanda Forever…
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Is Toussaint my Haitian name?
The boy reveals that Toussaint is his Haitian name and his Wakandan name is T'Challa, son of T'Challa. The scene works as both a tribute to Chadwick Boseman and a means to allow for a T'Challa to continue to exist in the MCU. It also hits on the core importance of Boseman's character beyond the mantle of Black Panther.
Biography. Born and raised in Haiti, Jericho Drumm rejects his family's voodoo tradition and has a prosperous career as a psychologist in America. When his dying brother asks him to stop running, he learns his people's ancient ways. He becomes known as Doctor Voodoo and eventually Sorcerer Supreme.
Toussaint is his Haitian name, but his true name -- his Wakandan name -- is T'Challa. Of course, this name is in honor of his late father and the great leader of his native country.
Prince T'Challa's Haitian name Toussaint, as Shuri remarks, holds a great deal of importance with the real-life Toussaint L'ouverture being a highly recognized entity to have led the Haitian Revolution during the late 1700s.
Just like the first movie, the new “Wakanda Forever” presents and empowers different cultures, in this case revising the origin of the co-star, Namor, from the comics to adapt it with various elements of Mesoamerican cultures, especially the Mayan one.
Thony Loui is a Haitian designer and comic book artist who was mentored by Rich Buckler, the legendary comic artist known for his work with Marvel and DC Comics. Buckler helped Loui with his first Haitian superhero creation, Djatawo.
Nakia explained to Shuri that she and T'Challa had agreed it was better for him to grow up in Haiti, away from the pressure of being Wakanda's king. She also revealed that he had prepared them for his death, and told them not to come to his funeral.
There were scenes filmed in Puerto Rico meant to reflect Cap-Haïtien, a northern coast in Haiti, and of Haitians speaking their native tongue, Haitian Creole. Speaking creole instead of French meant a lot to me, that was the language of our colonizers.
As the inheritor of his father's throne, the new Toussaint will therefore be the one to carry into Wakanda the heritage of Black freedom and equality instantiated by Haiti in 1804 when it threw off the yoke of its very real colonizer, France, and became the first modern nation to permanently outlaw slavery.
The beautiful Caribbean island of Puerto Rico serves as the setting when the Wakanda storyline transports audiences to the countries of Mexico and Haiti. Part of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was filmed in Puerto Rico.
Prince T'Challa's debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's post-credits scene came as a huge shock to audiences, as it was revealed that T'Challa and Nakia had a son before Thanos' attack on Earth in Avengers: Infinity War, choosing to raise him in Haiti away from the pressures of the Wakandan throne.
Nakia, also known as Malice, is one of the Black Panther's deadliest foes—and was once one of his most valued allies. Formerly one of Wakanda's Dora Milaje, or “Adored Ones”—a group of deadly women that act as the king's fiercest bodyguards—Nakia was a trusted confidant of T'Challa's.
Shuri is the princess of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. She is the daughter of T'Chaka and younger sister of T'Challa, who is the king of Wakanda and the Black Panther, an earned title and rank given to the paramount chief of the nation.
Born Ororo Munroe to a tribal princess of Kenya and an African-American photojournalist father, Storm was raised in Harlem, New York City and Cairo, Egypt.
America Chavez is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Joe Casey and artist Nick Dragotta, the character first appeared in Vengeance #1 (September 2011). America Chavez is the second incarnation of Miss America.
As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American girl whose dad read her comics every night, I quickly became a fan and then scholar of Miles Morales, the Afro-Puerto Rican Spider-Man who first appeared in comic book form in 2011's “Ultimate Fallout #4.”
